SOCIETY FOR INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY 2021 VIRTUAL ANNUAL MEETING (VAM)January 3 – Febuary 28, 2021 Meeting Abstract S5-2  Tue Jan 5 10:30 – 11:00  Fabulous fish tails: Using morphology to model functional diversity across the fish tree Donatelli, CM*; Roberts, AS; Baxter, D; Abu-Badr, L; Naughton, L; Han, L; Ortiz, F; Standen, EM; University of Ottawa; […]

SOCIETY FOR INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY 2021 VIRTUAL ANNUAL MEETING (VAM)January 3 – Febuary 28, 2021 Meeting Abstract S5-8  Tue Jan 5 16:00 – 16:30  Evolution of the tail and lack thereof for aquatic propulsion in mammals Fish, FE*; Rybczynski, N; Duff, CM; West Chester Univ.; Canadian Museum of Nature; West Chester Univ. ffish@wcupa.edu Aquatic mammals exhibit […]

SOCIETY FOR INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY 2021 VIRTUAL ANNUAL MEETING (VAM)January 3 – Febuary 28, 2021 Meeting Abstract S5-5  Tue Jan 5 14:00 – 02:30  Cheetah tail behavior during pursuit Patel, A*; Jericevich, R; Knemeyer, A; Jusufi, A; University of Cape Town; University of Cape Town; University of Cape Town; Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems amir.patel@uct.ac.za […]

Meeting Abstract S5-4  Sunday, Jan. 5 09:30 – 10:00  The Effect of Water on Salamander Cling Performance at the Critical Roughness O’DONNELL, MK*; DEBAN, SM; Brown University; University of South Florida mary_kate_odonnell@brown.edu https://marykateodonnell.wordpress.com Plethodontid salamanders are capable of extraordinary clinging and climbing performance. This has enabled them to access arboreal, saxicolous, troglodytic, terrestrial, and fossorial habitats to […]

Meeting Abstract S5-5  Sunday, Jan. 5 10:30 – 11:00  Suction feeding in small animals and carnivorous plants DEBAN, SM*; HOLZMAN, R; MULLER, UK; University of South Florida; Tel Aviv University; California State University Fresno umuller@csufresno.edu http://zimmer.csufresno.edu/~umuller/FBDS/FBDS-home/FBDS-home-welcome.html Suction feeding has evolved independently in two highly disparate systems, aquatic vertebrates and carnivorous bladderworts. Incidentally, bladderworts are the smallest and […]

Meeting Abstract S5-6  Sunday, Jan. 5 11:00 – 11:30  Nature’s weapons of mass reproduction: Ballistic dispersal of seeds and spores WHITAKER, DL; Pomona College dwight.whitaker@pomona.edu Because plants lack locomotion, their only means of colonizing new habitats or escaping disease or predation is through seed and spore dispersal. The most effective methods for dispersal over long distances use […]

Meeting Abstract S5-1  Sunday, Jan. 5 08:15 – 08:30  Introduction to the symposium Müller , UK*; Poppinga, S; California State University Fresno; University of Freiburg, Botanic Garden

Meeting Abstract S5-2  Sunday, Jan. 5 08:30 – 09:00  Functional Surfaces of Insect-trapping Pitcher Plants BAUER, U; University of Bristol ulrike.bauer@bristol.ac.uk https://research-information.bristol.ac.uk/en/persons/ulrike-bauer(a9e410df-5a0f-4831-80e6-33a5de71ec9e).html Pitcher plants do not just solve physical problems – they use physics to solve one of the most existential problems in nature: finding food. Every single part of their pitfall traps is adapted to make […]

Meeting Abstract S5-9  Sunday, Jan. 5 14:00 – 14:30  Efficiency of odor capture by multiscale pectinate insect antennae JAFFAR-BANDJEE, M; STEINMANN, T; KRIJNEN, G; CASAS, J*; University of Tours; CNRS; University of Twente; University of Tours casas@univ-tours.fr While the pectinate antennae of silk moths and other insect groups are considered as the paragon of sensitivity to sexual […]

Meeting Abstract S5-11  Sunday, Jan. 5 15:00 – 15:30  Design principles of Fluid Force and Moment Platforms for biological locomotion studies LENTINK, D*; CHIN, D.D. ; HIGHTOWER, B.J.; INGERSOLL, R.; Stanford; Stanford; Stanford; Stanford dlentink@stanford.edu One of the key challenges in studying the biomechanics of organisms moving in fluids is measuring the instantaneous fluid force and moment […]